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Show THERE WAS A FIGHT. Which was nil a Itesnlt of the Kureka Townsito Hearing- Croj-ress of the Testimony. Tlic Kurcka townsite cae opened this morning witli tlio ro-dlroct examination of Mr. Hcndcrsnu. "Mr. Hendctsot:, on page 535 of your testimony, tes-timony, in answer to a question of Major Bird, referring to a claim east, of the ex-, eluded ground, you stated that you hud beon over the ground but had paid no' attention to the location in that part of the, country. Now. by tiiat answer did you mean that you had paid no attention to the character of the surface ground, or that you had .eild no attention to the boundary lines of the various vari-ous claims V "1 meant that 1 had paid no attention to the boundary lines of the claims, not to the surface." "Now, with reference to the Jim (ireen well, to which yon have testified, you state that about forty feet of the well is in wash and about eleven feet in granite and porphyry; por-phyry; now, does the forty feet of wash begin at the surface and extend downward into the well?" "Yes sir," "And the eleven feet of granite and porphyry por-phyry is beneath the wash?" "It lies beneath the wash.'' "Do you know the location of the residence resi-dence of John E. Hardwick in Eureka?" "Yes sir." "In what direction from the shaft on the Wolfe Tone is his residence''" "It would lay south of the stake." "Now, calling your attention to his residence resi-dence as marked on the townsite map, No. -U, and starting from a point about three-fourths three-fourths of a mild directly north of that house, and running about one. half a mile thence east one mile, I will ask you if you examined the surface ground lying directly cast and north of those two lines?" "I have been all over the ground but I haven't examined the north part in the last year, very closely, only the times that I went to." "You have testified that in your judgment the grounds embraced within ths townsite application were worth nothing for mineral pvrposes, and that they had a value for townsite purposes. Now I w ill ask you if this fact is not good evidence to your mind that the mining locations wore made for speculation?" "Yes sir." "You may state whether or not after leaving leav-ing this ollice on yesterday you were assaulted as-saulted by M. Sullivan because of the testimony testi-mony you had given in this ease?" "Last night in the early part of the evening even-ing I was inside Of a saloon, havinir walked in with a man from Hingham; we were standing at the bar when Mr. Sullivan and Mr. Powers came in; Mr. Sullivan looked at me and made tile remark, "You two-faced s of a b ;" at that time he struck a blow at no; I dodged; be hit my hat and knocked it off my head; I turned around and looked at him and walked out, and said that is all riirht.Tini.I will see you again." "I met Mr. Peterson as I was goin:: down the street and told him about it; he says, "Why don't you have him arrested':" I said no, not for a lit- i tie thing like that, as I didn't suppose there would be anything more of it." The hearing then adjourned till Tuesday morning at 10 a. m. Mr. O, K. Davis, attorney for the townsite people, was seen by a reporter for The Times in regard to the number of witnesses they had still to put on the stand and the length of time it would take, lie said, "we have about, six w itnesses to testify which I suppose w ill take up all of next week at the rate we have oven going." V. II. Bird, attorney for the protottantl said "he had quite a number of witnesses in rebuttal, and tiiat it would be hard to say when the ease would close." |